Millions of views and counting! Athesia makes the featured Bernie Sanders campaign video.

At the Memorial Art Gallery, left to right, Brighton Town Court Judge Karen Morris, Athesia, and former Brighton Town Supervisor Sandra Frankel 1/30/16

Hillary Bialecki outside the Bug Jar, Monroe Avenue, 3/12/16

When she heard the news ten hours ago, Athesia Benjamin, art professor at MCC, wrote: Isn’t it crazy?!??! I didn’t go to sleep till about 3 am, I was so pumped.

Yesterday, Athesia, a huge, Rochester, huge, Bernie, supporter appears twice on the newest Bernie Sanderscampaign video which is going, as they say, viral. Note: this updated version is at about 410K. The first version was seen by 1.7 million in the first few hours. UPDATE: 3,854,522 people like this

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